UMT stands for Useless Meme Terror / 4.9.

May 29, 2006 13:11


Go to Wikipedia.

In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
List three events that happened on your birthday.
List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
Post this in your journal.

EVENTS

1940 - World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.

1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing four-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.

1972 - Israeli Athletes taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre ♥

BIRTHS

1891 - Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942)

1896 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor, and director (d. 1948)

DEATH

1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad



A Black September terrorist on a balcony in the Olympic Village in September 1972
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